Honestly, i think that after ep 15, they ruined it.
He finally beat the game and if the story continues, it will drag more hate into the series.
After ALO you think they learn a lesson about VRMMORPGs and how evil the owners can be.

Long story short, to those that are wondering if the series will come back for season 3*, the answer is yes.

The series have made quite a profit for the production companies(not to mention the profits from licensing feeds, games, novels, etc..). In addition, SOA has been one of the top-tier anime for the year 2012.

While there is way too much content to be crammed into season 3, you can expect the main storyline to be more or less the same, with some parts omitted from the anime series(much like in season 1).

Anime should be out anywhere from early March to as late as mid June. In the end, it is up for the animation companies to decide when's the best time to release the anime for maximum profit and exposure.

* Many people are debating whether the SOA and ALO arcs are to be considered one or two seasons, but regardless of the outcome, let's just pretend that that number 3 following the "Season" in the title stands for the whatever-next-gen season that will cover GGO will be.

You can pretend all you want, but SAO had one season broadcast over two cours. There has only been one SAO series. If there is another, it will be season 2, not season 3.

I expect it will get more, however, as it has plenty of source material left and was insanely popular in terms of sales.

Good and bad have no bearing on what gets a 2nd season and what doesn't, other than the fact that if something is sufficiently bad it won't sell.

The only thing that matters is sales figures and the desire of the creators to make another season. In some cases, desire can override sales figures, or sales figures are secondary to other considerations, like with Chihayafuru. For that show, it was the impact the anime had on manga sales that ensured a second season, even though the DVD/BluRay sales were quite modest.

In some cases, the show could sell tons but there will be no more seasons because there is no more story to tell. In others, like Haruhi, the sales figures were there, but the desire to make more anime seems to be lacking.

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The DVD/Blu-Ray sales have been amazing, to say the least; modest would be an understatement. However, regardless of whatever the next SAO series will be called and whether they'll focus solely on *spoiler*.

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*Spoiler* - Gun Gale Online(GGO) and may even expand into 7th and 8th novel, although they're more like side stories, thus it is way too early to predict whether they'll be included. Either way, GGO has a solid storyline so expect an amazing anime season.

The "modest" was referring to the sales figures for Chihayafuru, which I was using as an example of the type of show that can get a second season without having high BluRay/DVD sales.

Not sure if its just me, but the show makes me a little mad at it.
Not because its a bad show, but because the storyline for the show had so much potential to. Yet, most of that potential for a great series was ruined.
That what pisses me off, that the potential for the series was not even close to fully used.
I think season was should of just focused soley on SAO aincard for atleast 25 episodes to give it better development. Then 2nd season would be alfheim online which wasnt as good as aincard arc, but I think they could of done a better job on that arc to if it had been given more episodes.

Hopefully they will see this is and fix the problem when they do a season 2 and give it enough episodes. For i know its not possible for season 1 to be redone just for aincard.

Also not sure if my posts relates here at all, but this was a SAO topic and I just wanted to get this said and starting a new topic would of been a waste.

Not sure if its just me, but the show makes me a little mad at it.
Not because its a bad show, but because the storyline for the show had so much potential to. Yet, most of that potential for a great series was ruined.
That what pisses me off, that the potential for the series was not even close to fully used.
I think season was should of just focused soley on SAO aincard for atleast 25 episodes to give it better development. Then 2nd season would be alfheim online which wasnt as good as aincard arc, but I think they could of done a better job on that arc to if it had been given more episodes.

Hopefully they will see this is and fix the problem when they do a season 2 and give it enough episodes. For i know its not possible for season 1 to be redone just for aincard.

Also not sure if my posts relates here at all, but this was a SAO topic and I just wanted to get this said and starting a new topic would of been a waste.

To be honest, I think that the ending of the original SAO should've been the ending for season 1. I would've loved to see more detailed scenary of everyday life in aincrad, maybe even continued side stories of the "Laughing Coffin"; however, the move to merge SAO and ALO has been very bold, especially given that just when things got real in SAO, the storyline got immediately cut off.. in essence, I did not fancy the lacking of a smooth transition between SAO and ALO.

I can only hope that in Season 2 they will focus more on the storyline to give a sense of depth to the story.

Not sure if its just me, but the show makes me a little mad at it.
Not because its a bad show, but because the storyline for the show had so much potential to. Yet, most of that potential for a great series was ruined.
That what pisses me off, that the potential for the series was not even close to fully used.
I think season was should of just focused soley on SAO aincard for atleast 25 episodes to give it better development. Then 2nd season would be alfheim online which wasnt as good as aincard arc, but I think they could of done a better job on that arc to if it had been given more episodes.

Hopefully they will see this is and fix the problem when they do a season 2 and give it enough episodes. For i know its not possible for season 1 to be redone just for aincard.

Also not sure if my posts relates here at all, but this was a SAO topic and I just wanted to get this said and starting a new topic would of been a waste.

Not sure if its just me, but the show makes me a little mad at it.
Not because its a bad show, but because the storyline for the show had so much potential to. Yet, most of that potential for a great series was ruined.
That what pisses me off, that the potential for the series was not even close to fully used.
I think season was should of just focused soley on SAO aincard for atleast 25 episodes to give it better development. Then 2nd season would be alfheim online which wasnt as good as aincard arc, but I think they could of done a better job on that arc to if it had been given more episodes.

Hopefully they will see this is and fix the problem when they do a season 2 and give it enough episodes. For i know its not possible for season 1 to be redone just for aincard.

Also not sure if my posts relates here at all, but this was a SAO topic and I just wanted to get this said and starting a new topic would of been a waste.

Ive yet to be able to get into reading light novels. Maybe that will be my next step haha.
At first I was only able to watch dub series, then subs, then started reading manga. Guess the next thing is to get into reading the novels.

I think ill give it a shot. Meaning as I liked the anime for the most part so the novel must be a lot better.

Not sure if its just me, but the show makes me a little mad at it.
Not because its a bad show, but because the storyline for the show had so much potential to. Yet, most of that potential for a great series was ruined.
That what pisses me off, that the potential for the series was not even close to fully used.
I think season was should of just focused soley on SAO aincard for atleast 25 episodes to give it better development. Then 2nd season would be alfheim online which wasnt as good as aincard arc, but I think they could of done a better job on that arc to if it had been given more episodes.

Hopefully they will see this is and fix the problem when they do a season 2 and give it enough episodes. For i know its not possible for season 1 to be redone just for aincard.

Also not sure if my posts relates here at all, but this was a SAO topic and I just wanted to get this said and starting a new topic would of been a waste.

Ive yet to be able to get into reading light novels. Maybe that will be my next step haha.
At first I was only able to watch dub series, then subs, then started reading manga. Guess the next thing is to get into reading the novels.

I think ill give it a shot. Meaning as I liked the anime for the most part so the novel must be a lot better.

Thanks for the link.

yea, the novel is a LOT better. there's a ton of stuff that was cut out of the anime, especially the Aincrad arc.

As a light novel fan of SAO, personally I hated the anime....
It just didnt feel right..... it was emotionless..... It was dead feeling....
Guh.... Sinon! Yuuki!!!!! I wanna see you!! But I dont care for KiriAsu